You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance

About this book

No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript odds are you dont fully understand the language. As part of the "You Dont Know JS" series this concise yet in-depth guide focuses on new asynchronous features and performance techniquesincluding Promises generators and Web Workersthat let you create sophisticated single-page web applications and escape callback hell in the process. Like other books in this series You Dont Know JS: Async & Performance dives into trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers simply avoid. Armed with this knowledge you can become a true JavaScript master. With this book you will: Explore old and new JavaScript methods for handling asynchronous programming Understand how callbacks let third parties control your programs execution Address the "inversion of control" issue with JavaScript Promises Use generators to express async flow in a sequential synchronous-looking fashion Tackle program-level performance with Web Workers SIMD and asm.js Learn valuable resources and techniques for benchmarking and tuning your expressions and statements